In his latest NFL blog, Ben Saunders highlights two players who hark back to an earlier era of the sport - with varying success

Every American football fan in Britain, more or less, will have had some smart
Alec banging on at them about the same old reasons that it isn’t a
legitimate sport. “They’re soft, look at all that padding,” “It’s too
stop-start” (This from a nation of people whose main summer sport is
cricket). And: “They all come off the field when they lose the ball and they
have separate kickers.”

Well, as far as kickers go, everyone hates them – especially when they miss a
field goal or extra point that would win your team the game.